Last week’s reader survey went over well, so let’s try another one…
here’s a few questions (taken from my buddy Jason Boyett) to help us all get to know each other better.
1. What was your first job?
2. What is your job/career now?
3. If you could be doing anything else with your life — money’s not an issue — what would it be and why?
Leave your 3 answers in the comments…
and as always, thanks for reading a being a part of this community.
It’s fun to get to know more about you all.
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1. Ye Ole Fashioned Ice Cream and Sandwich Cafe. My first job, and my favorite.
2. Economic researcher and fiscal analyst for state government
3. Teach elementary school reading and language arts. And make ice cream concoctions.
1) Butcher Shop
2) Nothing/Applying For Work At Camp Harmony
3) Traveling Europe…and Skydiving.
My first job was sacking groceries. I got a summer second job “delivering” phone books (read: tossing phone books from a truck at poor inner city houses.)
Today, I’m a teacher and a pastor.
I suppose I’d be a professional critic if I could be anything. I’d critique anything!
1. good ole McDonalds
2. Computer Programmer
3. i think i’d work at camps…or anything youth-work related. used to be involved with Camp South Africa (http://www.allianceredwoods.com/camp_south_africa.shtml) till I grew up and life got in the way, so i think i’d do something like that.
1. Idlewild Park. The greatest job of all time. Worked there for 6 summers.
2. *ducks* PennDOT. Not the stand on the road and hold a shovel type, but the work in the office and deal with all the information of the road and attempt to ensure its accuracy type.
3. As much as I would love to be a rock star, I think that only lasts a finite period of time, so if I could do anything else, it would be a missionary (which I hope to do once school loans and junk are paid off).
If money is truly no issue I would also feed the whole planet.
1. Sportswriter.
2. Sportswriter.
3. Playing a lot of golf and writing only when I want about whatever I want.
1. McDonald’s toasting buns for 3 hours a week before I got fired because my buddy failed to show up to cover my shift twice in a row.
2. Quality Engineer for a Biopharmaceutical company.
3. Blog here and write better stuff for you guys, and write books, and speak a bit more.
First Job: Iowa Regular Baptist Camp
Current: Director of Ministry Development for Logos Bible Software
Do Anything/Dream: Combine current job with an office building nestled in the woods at the foot of Mt. Baker!
- Sorting Baseball Cards in Middle School
- Analyst
- Resident Theologian/Reader at a Church or Seminary Prof.
1) Picking tomatoes
2) Corporate communications guy, entrepreneur, student, dad, husband
3) 2 + whatever God wants me to do
First Job: Daycare worker at my church daycare
Current Job: Youth Pastor
Dream Job: Youth Pastor
1. Cashier at Harris Teeter (grocery store)
2. Title I Reading Specialist (I work with elementary school kids who have trouble with reading)
3. Couch napability tester. Or a mom.
First job: kitchen and tray cleaning monkey in coffee shop
Current job: churches together youth development officer
Dream job: probably not dissimilar to current job, but with the added bonus of being a professional footballer (real football, aka soccer)
1. I sorted bottles and cans returned to a grocery store for deposit refund. A “Dirty Jobs” candidate…
2. Sr. Project Manager/Solution Architect in IT specializing in Agile/Scrum delivery processes
3. Executive Pastor for a growing multi-site church or a Scuba Dive operator in Belize
First job: employee at gift/fufu shop
Current: labor and delivery nurse
Dream: work w/anthropologists identifying and repatriating remains of individuals in military related areas of Asia/Pacific
That is a cool dream job! The families would be so grateful for that work.
1) delivery guy for a furniture and appliance store
2) supply chain/logistics
3) writing for a television show
1. Ancillary floor worker in a nursing home (making beds, passing meal trays, etc)
2. Social Worker / Admissions Coordinator for Assisted Living and Healthcare Center (work with a campus of about 600 residents)
3. Wife/mom (big prayer request), professional singer (because I love to sing), help in spreading the Gospel around Scotland/UK (because that’s where mu family lives)
1. Baseball/Softball gate-keeper at my jr. high/high school. From 8th grade to senior year.
2. Graphic designer for a legal services company. And a Miche Bag rep.
3. I’d be working for some kind of girls’ ministry. Hopefully I’ll be working as my hubby’s assistant at a college ministry in about a year and a half, and that will be a dream job! We just have to keep praying it works out…
And when kids come along, I want to be a stay-at-home mommy.
1.) cleaned automatic pinsetter machines at a bowling alley
2.) team leader of library technology for a university
3.) writing musical scores for movies and hanging out with donald miller, susan isaacs, and bryan allain whenever I could.
@Zac – dude, I loved idlewild park as a kid! But I was pretty rude to the workers. Sorry if I was rude to you. I can’t wait to take my kids there – probably this summer on a ride out or back from visiting from folks in the Burgh.
I remember you, you mean kid you!
I actually worked in the food area Sweet Treets (SIC) and Cyclone Cone. Most of the rude people we dealt with involved complaints about the lines.
It is an awesome park to take kids. We have season passes and probably took my 3 year old 20 times last summer. For the cost of 2 admission tickets you could go unlimited times and you don’t feel like you are getting ripped off if you just go for a couple hours.
First Job: Janitorial Assistant. Talk about starting at the bottom, I was a step below Janitor.
Current Job: I’m an IT Analyst that specializes in application support for a mid-size financial institution.
Dream Job: Singer/Songwriter.
First job: picking blueberries in Arkansas and babysitting
Current job: part time education coordinator for a pro-life organization, freelance writer/copy writer/editor, full time wife/mom/homemaker
Dream job: I would move to the Netherlands to help my former youth pastor with an international church he’s planting and focus on ministry to women and families. I’d also continue the writing and pursue a book contract.
First job I remember doing for money: Got paid a nickel for every day I made my bed. My parents tried so hard to teach my sister & me; the money worked because we got paid when we did the work and when we didn’t do it, we got nothing.
Currently: I’m the executive assistant to the dean of a veterinary college. Great job.
Dreaming: Definitely something creative. Maybe pottery or graphic design. I always wanted to be a professional singer – so that would still be fun too.
1. Wash dishes at Lee’s Famous Recipe Fried Chicken. (lasted 2 weeks)
2. Stay at home mom, homeschooling by default this year.
3. Rehab furniture, Interior Design and maybe write on the side.
Just curious, what does homeschooling by default mean?
1. watermelon loader for the guy down the street
2. software developer/project manager
3. it would be fun to go pro in table tennis, because i like table tennis. I’d also wouldn’t mind creating and selling my own artwork.
1. cashier and ice cream scooper at Gelato Da Vinci
2. Activites Coordinator at a respite care center for homeless men and women/ AmeriCorp volunteer
3. Either travel around the world or work for To Write Love On Her Arms
1.Hershey park ride operator
2.meteorolgist at our local news station (nbc affiliate)
3. stripper…kidding! Fudgie Wudgie seller at the beach
“Guy Friday”, as it was written on the job description. I worked carnivals, tossed pizzas and catered a booth at the International Balloon Fiesta.
I now work for an accounting firm, but I’m the network administrator, not one of the humorless bean counters.
If I could do anything else, I’d be a writer. It’s been a lifelong dream.
1.
first job, a Hallmark Store, first real adult job- staff assistent in US Senate Office
2.
researcher in US Senate Office- not too far different
3.
Honestly, as cheesy as this sounds, this is what I want to do…so keep working in this field, that I’m passionate about and trying to help people, maybe I’d do more traveling…
1. Sports camp counselor
2. Master of Ceremonies for the Circus that is the 4th grade.
3. Dream job: wife and mom. Since that’s not happening anytime soon, I’m
1. Crushing cans with a sledgehammer (I was 8, and I got paid to do it)
2. Computer programmer
3. Making movies, working with kids to get them off the streets
1. working in a bingo hall, handing out the change to all the old dears.
2. Working in the education department of a Zoo – doing a bit of everything (but not looking after the animals)
3. Working in Education and Conservation – but maybe somewhere slightly more exotic than Scotland!
First Job: Lawn Care Assistant (Family Business)
Job Now: Student, and waiting for lawn care to start back up considering it’s winter where I am!
Dream: I would be a writer, writing novels about fantasy worlds with embedded morals!
1. Frysville Farms
2.Chef
3. I would love to run a non-profit catering company that would benifit the poor and hungry.
1. What was your first job? First job: Shoney’s waitress
Before that I taught piano lessons, but that didn’t feel like a job.
2. What is your job/career now?
Home Educator, Wife, Mom
(I previously worked as a graphic artist before coming home full time.)
3. If you could be doing anything else with your life — money’s not an issue — what would it be and why?
I would love to work in the field of home education, encouraging weary moms. I would love to have more time to travel and explore what God is doing in other parts of the world. And I’d like to do more artsy things.
1. worked in a Dr’s office
2. RN, School nurse right now in an elem. school
3. I’d still be a nurse but would be able to do some medical missions
1. Cashier at Burger King. I quit when I turned 16 and they were going to make me work in the kitchen.
2. Media Buyer for an advertising agency.
3. Travel writer is always the first thing I think of, but then I realize that you’d have to travel all the time and I like being home, so I would say a TV show critic.
1. Sanitation engineer (aka dishwasher) at a campground
2. Youth Pastor / full-time student
3. Start a house for troubled/struggling teen girls / young women
My first job as a kid was mowing lawns around my neighborhood, then I downgraded myself at age 16 to go work my first “real” job at Kmart.
I am now a pastor who came from the westcoast to the midwest and love the amazing community I live in.
I would take all the dreams I have about reaching people and make them a reality. When I was a youth pastor in Las Vegas I had dreamed about taking a hotel/casino called Castaways and transforming that into and outreach, community, mentoring center for as many as possible. I now try to do that by teaming up with the ministries that are doing that in my community right now!
1. Mowing Yards … Kamp Counselor
2. Product Engineer for a govt contractor
3. Spend more time with my family / start a machine shop for niche markets and helping people bring their ideas to life.
1. Telemarketing- selling magazines, except that I was really bad at it because I was too nice and didn’t sell a thing! I only did it for 3 days before I simultaneously got fired and quit! The funny thing was that my first full time job 3 years later was at a small daycare chain and the main office took up the whole building where the telemarketing was (the building used to be a bunch of offices, the telemarketing job was in one room).
2. Stay at home mom!!
3. I have my dream job now! I wouldn’t trade it for anything! Once my kids (only one right now) go to school I do want to pursue becoming a reading specialist (need to finish my bachelors degree first). I am completely content now though.
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First Job: Cashier at BiLo (Grocery store)
Current Job: Not employed/ presently volunteering at the church I attend that is located in the inner-city, I am in charge of the tech/sound. We also have a ministry that brings together churches and businesses through out the city to spread God’s word and share His love to those who don’t know it, called WITHOUT WALLS MINISTRIES. I book the bands for the outreaches that we have throughout the year. I LOVE IT!
Dream Job: Band Manager, I love to be the one people call and say hey we’d love for you to come here. Writer. Wife, if God has that in His Will.
first job: worked at the Limited. spent much more than i earned
current job: church planter/missionary in France
dream job: chef or own a tiny antique/rare book shop in the south of France
Are you part of “The Bridge” church planting/missionary team in Paris?
Customer service at 1/2 Price store in Omaha. They sold brand name rejects.
Wife, mother, teacher, etc…
Lately, I’ve been dreaming of having a combination bakery/bulk foods/book store. Kind of like an Amish run store, but our area is lacking something like this. I love to bake, read and I buy lots of bulk foods from the out of town places we visit.
Farm hand for a local tobacco farmer, unloading tobacco leaves and filling barns. This was back in the days before migrant workers when this kind of child abuse was tolerated.
Firefighter/EMT
Writing. I can’t not do it.
1. What was your first job?
Cashier/Tshirt folder/CD alphabetizer at a trendy head shop on Long Island that shall not be named
2. What is your job/career now?
Personnel Clerk (Human Resources) at City School District in Upstate NY
3. If you could be doing anything else with your life — money’s not an issue — what would it be and why?
I have so many dreams – but my current one is to write/teach/consult about leadership development, and the connection between God and work.